Click on Krystal Ball'Basically, they are in this trust Trump cult mindset. So, they
will follow him more or less. But we're talking about like 30% of the country.
So yeah, the rest of the country is already horrified and disgusted with not
only the foreign policy but really I think the economic policy has been the
more dire implication here. And with this war of illegal horrific war of
choice, people also have this sense of like okay once again you've got plenty
of money. You're asking for $200 billion dollar to bomb school girls in Iran
and you're right now what they're proposing is cutting healthcare again to pay
for that. So rather than focusing on all these concerns we've got at home and
our inability to pay the bills and affordability crisis and now we see gas
prices going up and we know the grocery store prices are to follow. Instead of
focusing on any of that you are actively making things worse with this war. So
look at this point to you know to your point Owen there are no good options.
The good option was to not start this war. The good option was
to take the quite generous deal that was on the table from the Iranians. And so
now here's his basically his menu of options. He can walk away and accept a
surrender. Only his base in the entire world, only his base will buy some sort
of a victory narrative, but he can try to sell that. It will likely spell the
end of the US Empire. It will be catastrophic. It will be catastrophic for the
already the damage that's done economically will be devastating for a lot of
the world, especially the Global South. The long term the end of the US Empire
I think will be good for the World but in the meantime there will be you know
devastating uh implications and obviously for America Firsters it will be a big
problem. So that's one option which is really bad. The other option is as you
say to escalate have some sort of take some island or go in and try to seize
this loose nuclear material which is likely to involve massive US service members
death. it is not likely to create the victory narrative that you want,
especially if you're seizing one of these strategic islands, whether it's Kharg
Island or another one. That means you are embedded then in indefinitely in the
region. So all of these are completely disastrous options, which is why, you
know, in the past, like you said, there's always been, oh, how's Donnie going
to get out of this one?........'
